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BIOLOGY: Biological factors can make emotion regulation harder. LACK OF SKILL: You don’t know what to do to regulate your emotions. REINFORCEMENT OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR: Your environement reinforces you when you are highly emotional. MOODINESS: Your current mood controls what you do instead of your Wise Mind. You don’t really want to put in time […]

EMOTIONS MOTIVATE (AND ORGANIZE) US FOR ACTION. Emotions motivate our behavior. Emotions prepare us for action. The action urge of specific emotions is often “hard-wired” in biology. Emotions save time in getting us to act in important situations. Emotions can be especially important when we don’t have time to think things through. Strong emotions help […]

1- OBSERVE YOUR THOUGHTS. As waves, coming and going. Not supressing thoughts. Not judging thoughts. Acknowledging their presence. Not keeping thoughts around. Not analyzing thoughts. Practicing willingness. Stepping back and observing thoughts as they run in and out of your mind. 2- ADOPT A CURIOUS MIND. Ask, “Where do my thoughts come from?” Watch and […]

Accepting reality with your body. HALF-SMILING Relax your face from the top of your head down to your chin and jaw. Let go of each facial muscle (forehead, eyes, and brows; cheeks, mouth, and tongue; teeth slightly apart). If you have difficulty, try tensing your facial muscles and then letting go. A tense smile is a […]

Willigness is readiness to enter and paticipate fully in life and living. Find a WILLING RESPONSE to each situation. Willingness is DOING JUST WHAT IS NEEDED: In each situation. Wholeheartedly, without dragging your feet. Willingness is listening very carefully to your WISE MIND, and then acting from your WISE MIND. Willingness is ACTING WITH AWARENESS […]

TURNING THE MIND is like facing a fork in the road. You have to turn yourmind toward the acceptance road, and away from the road of rejecting reality. TURNING THE MIND is choosing to accept. The CHOICE to accept does not itself equal acceptance. It just puts you on the path. TURNING THE MIND, STEP […]

Yesterday, I started my PTSD treatment. I experienced my first exposure to the trauma. It was very hard. My anxiety was so high. I think I did ok. My therapist said that I did a very hard work and I was the one who said a lot of details for the first exposure. When I […]